69th Congress Pictorial Directory, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

COLTON, Don Byron, a Representative from Utah;
born near Mona, Juab County, Utah, September 15, 1876;
moved with his parents to Uintah County, Utah, in 1879;
attended the public schools and the Uintah Academy, Vernal, Utah;
was graduated from the commercial department of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1896;
engaged in teaching in 1898, 1901, and 1902;
member of the State house of representatives in 1903;
was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905;
was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Vernal, Utah;
also engaged in ranching, sheep raising, and other business enterprises;
receiver of the United States land office at Vernal 1905-1914;
delegate to the Republican State conventions 1914-1924;
member of the State senate 1915-1917;
delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1904, 1924, and 1928;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1933);
chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Vernal, Utah;
unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1934;
moved to Salt Lake City in 1937 and continued the practice of law;
also engaged in farming and stock raising;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1940;
died in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1, 1952;
interment in Wasatch Lawn Cemetery.